Innovation for America: Restoring Growth, Reforming Government, Fixing Health Care, Expanding Opportunity Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer & Associate Director for Technology White House Office of Science & Technology Policy August 4, 2009

Need to Improve Progress on Key Indicators of Global Competitiveness Source: ITIF Report “The Atlantic Century”, February, 2009 … E-Government Higher Education Attainment Innovation Trend ITIF released a report in February 2009 benchmarking 40 countries on global competitiveness U.S. ranked last in the overall rate of change across 25 innovation metrics Information Technology and Innovation Foundation – “The Atlantic Century” … … …

ITIF released a report in February 2009 benchmarking 40 countries on global competitiveness

U.S. ranked last in the overall rate of change across 25 innovation metrics

CTO Agenda ~ Harnessing Technology and Innovation to Transform the Economy II Promote Innovation for National Priorities I Invest in the Building Blocks of Innovation III Instill an Open Government Culture Health IT: Catalyze product innovation through open data standards; deliver administrative simplification; align research and health IT Smart Grid: Accelerate energy efficiency through product innovation enabled by open data standards Education Technology: Encourage product innovation through national education technology plan, data standards Open Government Initiative: Coordinate policy on transparency, participation and collaboration Government Platforms: Facilitate the reuse of best practices through a platform for open government tools Smart, Secure Infrastructure: Catalyze innovative applications through national broadband plan; collaborate with private sector on cybersecurity R&D Collaboration: Focus on university commercialization, entrepreneurship, new product development 21 st Century Workforce: Encourage STEM training for all; provision online and open educational resources to bolster educational attainment rate

Health IT: Catalyze product innovation through open data standards; deliver administrative simplification; align research and health IT

Smart Grid: Accelerate energy efficiency through product innovation enabled by open data standards

Education Technology: Encourage product innovation through national education technology plan, data standards

Open Government Initiative: Coordinate policy on transparency, participation and collaboration

Government Platforms: Facilitate the reuse of best practices through a platform for open government tools

Smart, Secure Infrastructure: Catalyze innovative applications through national broadband plan; collaborate with private sector on cybersecurity

R&D Collaboration: Focus on university commercialization, entrepreneurship, new product development

21 st Century Workforce: Encourage STEM training for all; provision online and open educational resources to bolster educational attainment rate

IT Dashboard Building a Culture of Accountability Launched June 30, 2009 30 million+ hits since launch Strong Presidential commitment Measures performance against “on-time”, “on-budget”, and CIO evaluation Builds on the success of Shinseki review halting 45 current projects Source: www.whitehouse.gov & it.usaspending.gov

Launched June 30, 2009

30 million+ hits since launch

Strong Presidential commitment

Measures performance against “on-time”, “on-budget”, and CIO evaluation

Builds on the success of Shinseki review halting 45 current projects

Open Government: Building a Frictionless Platform to Speed Adoption (Eventually) Menu of Open Government Tools Provision a federal suite of open government tools. Make it easy and cost-effective for any agency to implement open government priorities. Candidates for Consideration Wiki Template Blog Template Open Peer Review Platform Open Grant-Making Platform Public Engagement Platform Product Innovation “Challenges” Platform Mapping and Visualization Tools

Provision a federal suite of open government tools.

Make it easy and cost-effective for any agency to implement open government priorities.

Delivering on the Promise “ In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site that will, for the first time ever, allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online.” – President Barack Obama, June 25, 2009 Presidential Remarks on Immigration Current immigration application process perceived as difficult, confusing Presidential mandate to improve transparency in 90 days Applicants will be able to: track status online across major application milestones view average wait times for each stage in process receive updates via text message and email Agency will develop new performance dashboard Source: www.uscis.gov Case in Brief: Application Tracking

Current immigration application process perceived as difficult, confusing

Presidential mandate to improve transparency in 90 days

Applicants will be able to:

track status online across major application milestones

view average wait times for each stage in process

receive updates via text message and email

Agency will develop new performance dashboard

Spirit of Commonwealth ~ Entrepreneurs Lowering Costs for Public Services Low-cost method to remove arsenic from water; 10+ million people suffer without treatment; GMU Professor Abul Hussam wins $1M Grainger Prize Water Filters Cost Per Device $40 SONO Filter Market Filters ~$5,000 Low-cost product to alleviate hearing impairment; 240+million people suffer without treatment; David Green selected as an Ashoka Fellow Hearing Aids Cost Per Device $60-$210 Impact 1 Market Aids ~$800 Prototype developed within three years of original concept Device requires no energy supply